chew the fat

1. 1.

   talk socially without exchanging too much information

   “the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”

   Synonymsshoot the breezechatconfabulateconfabchitchatchit-chatchatterchaffernattergossipjawclavervisit

   Broaderconverse

   Narrowershmooze

Questions about chew the fat

What does chew the fat mean?

chew the fat means "talk socially without exchanging too much information".

What is another word for chew the fat?

Close synonyms include shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chew the fat a common word?

chew the fat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.